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have been gaining some weight lately and feeling a bit anxious about it, but i caught a glimpse of my reflection in a window and i have a bit of butt now so that's a win

"we all hold swarm out here" has been a persistent earworm

i grew up methodist in a 20% mornon community & yeah rationalism intuitively and immediately seemed correct. whereas it took me until literally a couple months to realize that most american christians think The Fall was a bad thing, somehow

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

getting ready to do interviews & the lady in charge of recruiting opens with "so we don't pay enough and therefore can't expect good hires" while my boss sidechats that we still get good hires anyways

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classmate of a friend allegedly had this happen & didn't bother to correct it bc it meant he got cheaper insurance

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yud was, for historigraphical reasons, still present in the intro ea resources when i took the course. his articles were extremely obvious and the least supported among our cohort

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

struggling to remember the last time i felt like i was living in the present. mostly due to persistent future shock, but also often the reference point puts the moment i am inhabiting in the past

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my wife retroactively vindicated for thinking his name was bethlehem's bulldog

recent article from bentham's bulldog (an enthusiastic but painfully young ea) titled "Atheists Should Pray: Unless they're almost certain that God doesn't exist"

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you do not hate the cattle industry enough

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

astrology is fun when you focus on the parts that are about understanding space geometry (also for historiography but pic unrelated)

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

learning all sorts of horrifying things about marsupial (and mammal, and monotreme) reproduction thingofthings.substack.com/p/strange-ma...

thingofthings.substack.com

Strange mammals

Marsupial genitalia: exactly as much as you wanted to know

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh neat this lets you see which accounts were most voted for by your mutuals! and lots of fun data discussion

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

concept: enterprise software but good

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It takes more than engagement to notice this. You need to have your own sense of educational standards (from remembering your own education) and you need to distrust the school enough to be skeptical of what they're saying and doing. You have to go into it expecting school to not be good enough.

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

noticing a lot of different definitions of "engaged" are being used in responses to this, ranging from "pays attention to their kid" to "understands the american educational system well enough to know how to independently verify the school's claims"

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the thing i am learning as a non driver from the gas prices discourse is that, despite having lived most of my life in the american west or texas, i have massively underestimated how spread out the country is

frog and toad but its toad from the xmen

congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life together full of travel through beautiful landscapes 🚲🥂 @brennan.computer #brennanswedding

listening to the bbc try to describe the concept of foreign cities "these people, they're concentrated in particular places. islands, well not islands, but like islands. winnipeg, toranto..."

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

rival biotech companies, anthropic and google,,,

The precise diseases Anthropic is addressing and its progress remain unclear. Once a molecule ⁠is identified, it can take years to bring a drug to market as it is tested in human trials, a challenge that Anthropic has not taken on. Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery arm of rival Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, has worked for years to get to the clinic and earlier delayed that goal to the end of 2026.

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extremely unfortunate for both my epistemics and social belonging but it seems by actual deep beliefs are 1) materialism wrt minds and 2) god loves us

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

i think you can just make those arguments directly rather than trying to tar an entire community of earnest well-meaning people with extremely high intellectual integrity as weird sex cultist freaks

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

much more eloquently put than i can muster:

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

deeply distrustful of anyone dunking on someone they don't know for having sex they consider weird

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Xenia 🔍💎 @xenia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

really really really fucking despise the way y'all talk about aella on here guess we've all just given up on the idea that consenting adults can and should do what they want!

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

an unexpected side-effect of having committed hard to "children are full people" is that i have considered agi (though *not* asi) to be here since ~the advent of stateful agents

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i get that to a first approximation no one reads the tos, and also that companies sometimes abuse this fact i do not get how so many americans lack anything even resembling a theory of mind for businesses

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

you do not hate the cattle industry enough

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

really weird how expecting imminent large scale disruptions to the american status quo has gotten significantly *less* socially acceptable over the last decade

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ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

really love this article; not sure how much of it is clear writing vs having had years to stew on the ideas, but this makes sense in a way it never did in school

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it's so embarrassing when people invoke feminism to make an ad hominem attack against someone patient, correct, and male

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community building is as close to a pan-ideological concept as humans get. i fully agree that this othering behavior is counter-productive to leftist goals that i support. i am also aware that the global far right (esp the RSS) is extremely effective at being patient with recruits

starlink should be (inter)nationalized by the un

it's a little disappointing that the sky out there is now filled with satellites. but not disappointing enough to tip the scales against a) how nice it is to see the stars so clearly, and b) being able to connect to the rest of the world

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video buffering used to be a regular part of my life and just Isn't anymore. man i love living in the future

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oh video gen has gotten GOOD. updating

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to the latter point: i am very ideologically sympathetic towards socialism! unfortunately, my irl experiences with american leftists have made it very clear to me that i cannot trust them at even the most basic "protect my loved ones' right to live" level

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i really wish atproto had something like a bidirectional mute, to limit ease of access for low effort harassment while still allowing moderate+ effort engagement from critics

ornamental kermit @enflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

had a lovely morning listening to npr with my wife while we both worked in a warmly lit room, thunder in the distance, and enjoyed a nice vegetarian breakfast the sapphic stereotype rocks, every time i have leaned into it my life has improved. what am i still missing, other than a subaru?